Danton's Weblog 2009-08
From SLuserguide
31 August 2009
Sierra – you're a small company so act like one:
Loic – we should all be trust agents:
Mashable – Wikipedia will use colours to add layers of trust to articles:
Shute – Games, googles and Hollywood (on Ugo Trade):
TC – Facebook's optimization efforts:
Scoble – Ken Camp deconstructs Scoble's Twitter valuation:
Rheingold – how to create persistent searches using Google alerts:
Mashable – 11 quickie rails apps:
Prokofy – denial of service attack:
Loic – use your blog to get twitter followers:
Loic's favourite iPhone apps:
Mashable – 7 ways to become a twitter analyst:
O'Reilly – robotics to overhaul water infrastructure:
Loic – best sources on mobile apps:
TC – why teens don't tweet:
30 August 2009
Prokofy – NYTimes shows that free doesn't work:
Prokofy – Q Linden on how they handle bug reports:
TC – customer development methodology for start-ups:
Tateru resigns from New Citizens Incorporated:
O'Reilly – thisisindexed.com:
TC – Google testing Ajax Search:
Rheingold – mindful infotention:
TC – Twitter conferences:
TC – Lacy on what cleantech should learn from nanotech:
Loic – French geeks for water:
- http://jeromechoain.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/french-geeks-for-water-charity/
- http://mycharitywater.org/p/campaign?campaign_id=369
Loic – Singularity sees Tech as saviour (I must register with NYTimes to read article):
29 August 2009
Mashable – 20 creative apps for iPhone:
O'Reilly – sexy data skills:
- http://dataspora.com/blog/sexy-data-geeks/
- also see this blog for neat "Whitespace" wordpress theme
O'Reilly – 5 barriers to AR:
Rubaiyat – new literacy:
28 August 2009
O'Reilly – Quirky crowdsources product design:
Mashable – 5 ideas for social media marketers:
Orban – international space station 3D timeline:
Loic blogs about marketing sucks:
Scobleizer's favourite tweets:
Rheingold – Maury Giles on focused distraction:
Prok – Quiznos ad:
Scoble: hi I'm runs high at rails rumble:
O'Reilly – data deluge swamps science historians:
Mashable – virtual farm on Facebook
New Facebook iPhone app:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/27/worth-the-wait-new-facebook-iphone-app-sneaks-in-some-last-minute-changes/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/facebook-3-iphone/
O'Reilly – the future of html for mobiles:
- http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/why-is-html-suddenly-interesti.html
- WHATWG = Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group: http://www.whatwg.org/
Yelp's AR Easter Egg:
- http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/e6e411b4/new-yelp-iphone-app-is-also-out-there-cool-easter
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/yelp-augmented-reality/
27 August 2009
Shute – Mobilizy releases Wikitude3:
Mashable's list of 14 browsers:
Mark Cuban on Webhooks and Pubsubhubbub: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/08/25/the-internet-is-about-to-change/
26 August 2009
Mashable – new Sony reader is a digital library:
Scoble – the noise will get worse:
TC – Disqus revamps real-time comment system:
Maracas – tech support cheat sheet:
Scoble gets hacked:
tehKenny - THREE. WORD. ADVICE.
Schwarzenegger's twitter project:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/the-governator-live-from-twitter-hq-today-has-his-twitter-service-already-gone-to-pot/
- http://www.myidea4ca.com/
Pavig - why time goes one way:
Sierra - designing social sites:
O'Reilly – iPhone imitators as a "cargo cult":
TC – Facebook's outside world:
Sierra: So once again, I marvel at the lack of learning-as-marketing. Don't trick or persuade me to buy, teach me to make better choices.
TC – contact management for gmail:
Mashable – support social good on your blog:
O'Reilly – Worldwide lexicon (translation) toolbar:
Scoble – favstar shows most favorited tweets:
TC – Twitter's golden ratio:
Scoble demos Layar:
TC – Bebo founder Michael builds social giving site for the organisation Charity Water:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/25/what-michael-birch-did-after-selling-bebo-and-how-he-thinks-you-should-celebrate-your-birthday/
- http://mycharitywater.org/p/signIn
Scoble – Coding Horror and a book called Code Complete:
Gwyneth video on OpenSim 0.6.3:
Gwyneth – Linden Lab releases to let you create plug-ins to display media in SL:
Mashable (and others) – a twitter exploit (very hard to understand this one…):
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/25/twitter-exploit-more/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/massive-twitter-security-problem-not-resolved-just-yet/
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Twitter-Bug-Discovered-120103.shtml
Rheingold retweets Social Media Revolution:
Rheingold – overcoming the tragedy of the commons:
25 August 2009
O'Reilly – augmenting your brain with smartphones:
O'Reilly – social sharing and national security:
Mashable – tracking clickstreams:
Mashable – did Chrome kill Android for netbooks:
TC - Opera, yet another web browser:
TC – Apigee wants to be Google Analytics for APIs:
TC – Google's official blogger buzz:
TC - Joe Hewitt (Facebook) asks Apple to tear down the wall:
Scoble, Wagner, playing FourSquare:
Shute – AR meets brain-computer interface:
Rheingold's first Prezi:
TC – Yahoo adds "status-casting" to mail:
Rheingold – the wired campus:
Kapor – Wikipedia to limit changes to articles about living people:
24 August 2009
TC – Yahoo focusing on People Search:
Orban - Time's 50 best websites:
TC – Yahoo's "What Matters Most" event:
O'Reilly – FluidDB for truly social data:
TC – Linkative, a social network for site links:
Gwyneth – social network for CDS:
Rheingold – 15 tools for visual knowledge management:
Mashable – rehab center for Internet addiction:
Shute – Maker's ultimate tools:
AlKronos – Vastpark free OS virtual world software: http://www.vastpark.com/
TC – ultimate iPhone application organizer:
Mashable – on YouTube, Fred dethroned by Nigahiga:
O'Reilly – summary of Sierra video session on Creating Passionate Users:
Gwyneth: Avatars United is a Facebook for SL:
23 August 2009
Rheingold – social capital:
Tateru – Botgirl is a man:
- http://fourworlds.tumblr.com/post/165760644/my-secret-love-affair-with-the-avatar-botgirl-questi
- http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/emancipation-day.html
O'Reilly – the shrinking boomer economy:
22 August 2009
Arrington – FriendFeed is over:
O'Reilly – Linux kernel vulnerabilities in the cloud:
TC – Gillmore interviews Burchheit about FriendFeed:
O'Reilly – top software developers:
Shute – Ori Inbar on Ogmento:
TC – 100 technology experts on Twitter:
Rheingold – crowdsourcing for social good:
Mashable – cuil comes back as a real-time search engine:
Rheingold – tiny threads:
O'Reilly – This is Your Brain on Neurotechnology:
21 August 2009
Twitter provides location service:
- http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/twitter-your-new-location-serv.html
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/20/twitter-can-now-know-where-you-tweet/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/20/twitter-local-twitter-to-attach-locations-to-your-tweets/
Mashable – 13 things to do on Twitter besides tweet:
O'Reilly – Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg:
Mashable – 6 Facebook visualizations:
TC – Wolfram Alpha strikes deal with Bing:
Gwyneth – Coda, one-window web development:
Tateru – Snowglobe causes traffic flooding:
Syndicate Facebook Page updates to Twitter:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/20/facebook-syndicates-updates-from-pages-to-twitter-still-holds-user-updates-hostage/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/20/facebook-twitter-app/
TC – Lifehacker founder helps you hack your tweets:
Orban - GoogleVoice outside the US via Gizmo:
TC – a search engine that gives new results each time you add a letter:
Sierra – Zeus on conversational UX (user experience) design, with examples from posterous:
Mashable – posterous iPhone application:
Pavig – Au on LL-media plugin:
Mashable – selling in any economy:
Rheingold – Dana Boyd on technophilie:
Massively – Linden launches Avaline:
20 August 2009
Mashable – functional copy of Pirate Bay:
Shute – Wrobel's proposal for an Augmented Reality network:
TC – Lunch, a review site to change the world:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/lunchcom-launches-micro-reviews-reveals-its-quest-to-make-the-world-a-better-place/
- See also Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/
Mashable : Chatterbox = Facebook + Twitter + Chat:
O'Reilly – brand building by supporting customer evangelists:
Mashable – simple screencasting for twitter users:
Arrington – dolphins blow bubbles:
TC – Facebook's new inbox:
TC – SF crimespotting:
TC - Chat widget for site owners:
Mashable – nearly one out of two employers screen social media:
TC – Google continues to feed PubSubHubbub:
Pavig – Patrick Boivin's channel on YouTube:
TC – Google maps goes wiki style:
Sierra – Rowan Simpson of Trade Me:
TC – retweeting of comments:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/what-if-comments-could-be-retweeted-tweetmeme-is-working-on-it/
Au – WSJ article on Second Life:
Shute – Interaction Design for Augmented Reality:
- http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/08/inside-out-interaction-design-for-augmented-reality.php
Margulies – American time-use survey:
Maracas – how people spend their day:
19 August 2009
Gwyneth – Extropia on Mount Improbable:
Orban – NYT on widenoise:
Mashable – turn off annoying Facebook notifications:
TC – Yahoo BOSS (custom search engines) might be bigger than Bing:
O'Reilly – technological literacy:
Get paid to recycle:
Cshirky RT @kevinmarks: 'ID theft' is a fictional crime promoted by banks to cover up their bad security practices http://bit.ly/NkPtb
Rheingold saves mind map to web page:
- http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1GG4QC6TN-TFDMX0-CXH/Virtual%20Community%20and%20Social%20Media.cmap
Pavig – Maccessibility:
18 August 2009
Mashable - Wikipedia iPhone application:
O'Reilly – get cash for recycled gadgets:
O'Reilly – data driven democracy:
Mashable – change the world in 15 minutes a day:
O'Reilly – Augmented Reality without the phone:
Mashable – tumblr launches Facebook integration:
Layar version 2.0:
- http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/layar-proves-the-augmented-reality-revolution-is-not-in-silicon-valley/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/18/layar/
TC finds Facebook privacy lawsuit to be ridiculous:
Solis – 100 best social media books:
Chrome bookmark sync:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/and-google-said-let-there-be-chrome-bookmark-sync/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/chrome-bookmark-syncing/
O'Reilly – Jeff Jonas on space-time data:
Rheingold on concept maps:
Rubaiyat – human interface:
Mkapor Best part of tr.im open source announcement is distribution of aggregate anonymized data on click-thrus to all
Rubaiyat – hacker dojo:
TC – why Coldewey doesn't twitter:
TC – iLike deal hurts Facebook:
Kapor – Tr.im to go open-source, community-owned:
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/trim_to_go_open_source_community_owned.php
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/trim-cantwont-sell-goes-open-source-blames-everyone/
Shute – layars galore:
- http://blog.brightkite.com/2009/08/17/brightkite-layar-take-you-through-the-looking-glass-to-see-your-friends-in-a-new-dimension/
- http://www.prweb.com/releases/Layar/GoWeb3D/prweb2753434.htm
- http://www.soundwalk.com/blog/2009/08/17/augmented-reality-soundwalk-with-layar/
Tateru on Rosedale's "work with us":
O'Reilly – flex and html5:
Kapor – open source GSM network:
TC – news about GDGT:
Mitch Wagner – virtually speaking ning:
LongNow – Lolcat Bible:
Mashable – Microsoft's plan for search:
Pavig – terraforming of Mars:
Hrheingold For my purposes, concept mapping looks a great deal more powerful than mind-mapping: verbs can connect nodes, hierarchy isn't enforced
Orban – how to win a hack-a-thon:
Tateru – Linden announces support for media plug-ins:
O'Reilly – Dharmatech brings tech to non-profits:
Mashable – Facebook songs:
Sierra – Information addiction:
17 August 2009
TC – best iPhone apps:
Shirky – Wikipedia Signpost:
Tateru – lets BOINC:
O'Reilly – EFF on locational privacy:
Orban – Amazon physically ships you your data:
O'Reilly – iPhone apps for creativity:
Rheingold – wecommune:
Tateru – Linden Lab tightens XStreet rules:
TC – man TweetShell:
TC – Google's Webfinger:
O'Reilly – Google in physical retail:
Mashable – crasher squirrel:
KathySierra don't just *think* about [z], help users get GOOD at [z] thru support, community, marketing, open APIs... [z] is the bigger, cooler thing.
KathySierra* @brynn I have problem [x], you have solution [y], & as result of [y] I can NOW do more compelling thing [z]. I'm saying, think also of [z]
Mashable – use Facebook for professional networking:
Rockmelt, a Facebook browser:
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/14/rockmelt/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/14/the-rockmelt-mystery-is-it-just-a-facebook-browser-or-will-it-break-the-mold/
TC – you can make FriendFeed as ugly as you want:
14 Aug 2009
O'Reilly – real-time structured data analytics:
Mashable – AP to dominate Google rankings?
Lessig – Google books uses Creative Commons:
O'Reilly – Pogue's campaign to take back the beep:
Mashable – docstoc launches an iTune for docs:
Mashable – Facebook's new privacy features:
iGoogle's social gadgets:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/12/igoogle-releases-social-gadgets/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/igoogle-social-network/
Sarahcudah (via Rheingold) – Dvorak asks if Kundra Chopra is a phony:
- http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
- An answer: http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/08/on_kundras_college_records.php
Mashable – earn your public's trust:
Rubaiyat – 200 character sketch:
Shute – RWW on Gartner hype cycle:
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gartner_hype_cycle_2009.php
- and on the Real-Time Web: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/introduction_to_the_real_time_web.php
Pavig – blender video:
Mashable – Microsoft banned from selling word:
Facebook lite:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/facebook-begins-testing-facebook-lite-a-faster-simpler-version-of-the-service/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/facebook-lite/
12 Aug 2009
TC – the New Media School:
Mashable – FriendFeed alternative Streamy:
TC – web application survey:
hrheingoldMigrated from Netnewswire to Bloglines to Google Reader and now to Netvibes, so far my favorite.
Facebook mailbox api:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/facebook-launches-one-way-mailbox-api-woo-hoo/
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/facebook-mailbox-api-2/
Mashable – Google Facebook Search:
Mashable – delicious founder regrets selling to Yahoo:
09 August 2009
Kapor – socially responsible engineering:
Kapor – Eric Ries updates software manifesto:
Shute – diagram of Google web protocols:
Mashable – scientific job search:
Mashable – geek videos:
08 August 2009
TC- apps for sharing large files:
TC – blind search:
O’Reilly – Anil Dash on why Google Wave will fail:
- http://dashes.com/anil/2009/08/what-works-the-web-way-vs-the-wave-way.html
- Also see: http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html
Shute – RWW on Augmented Reality hype:
Mashable – Google Voice for iPhone to re-emerge as a web page:
Mashable – friending your employees:
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/07/friending-your-employees/
- http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/01/28/cb.facebook.boss.friend/index.html
Gwyneth's name usurped by copybot spammers:
TC – Gillmore blames Friendfeed:
O'Reilly – data mining with the Facebook ad info interface:
Rheingold – Manifesto for the reputation society:
Rheingold – Yahoo pipes:
hrheingold Yesterday devoted to learning Netvibes. Day before, Postrank. Today, getting started on Pipes. my @rww curriculum. Thank you!
Mashable – Team Apart for virtual meetings:
07 August 2009
Mashable – blog productivity tips:
06 August 2009
O'Reilly – preparing for Augmented Reality:
TC – Google Reader speeds up with PubSubHubbub:
Orban – Space Collective:
Download Mashable's Twitter book:
Rheingold – Nancy White on using social media:
Rheingold – Media Cloud:
Ev – Brizzly web-based twitter client:
timoreilly #Women2Follow: @pahlkadot @padmasree @caseycoleman @rashmi @liza @nilofer @charleneli
Mashable – tumbler on the rise:
Tateru – SL roadmap for content management:
TC – Listia to give away free stuff:
Rubaiyat – printed buildings:
Mashable – free multimedia for your blog:
O'Reilly – interviewed by IBM:
Tateru - Snowglobe:
Rheingold - serendipity:
O'Reilly - Steve Jobs hates the iPhone:
Sierra – marketing and innovation (she disagrees):
O'Reilly – don't forget your day job;
Orban - Gobbledygook:
Orban – the new replicator:
Rubaiyat – research on avatar design:
O'Reilly – Dyson on von Neumann, games and economics:
Tateru – SL user's guide to tier:
Eric Ries on the Steve Jobs method:
O'Reilly – open source on the battlefield:
05 August 2009
Mashable – wtf is social media:
Rheingold – welcome to my brain:
Shute – O'Reilly and Battelle on web squared:
Shute – Augmented Reality for mobiles:
- http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7452/1.html
- http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/08/03/augmented-reality-bigger-than-the-web-second-interview-with-robert-rice-from-neogence-enterprises/
O'Reilly – DoD web guidance forum:
Mashable – build your company on linkedin:
Mashable – download your Facebook data:
06 August 2009
Rheingold - serendipity:
O'Reilly - Steve Jobs hates the iPhone:
Sierra – marketing and innovation (she disagrees):
O'Reilly – don't forget your day job;
Orban - Gobbledygook:
Orban – the new replicator:
Rubaiyat – research on avatar design:

